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Teen Held In Death Of Girl, 7, At Casino

May 30, 1997|By From Tribune News Services.

LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA — A high school student has been arrested on charges of raping and strangling a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada casino in a crime partly captured on a videotape, police said Thursday.

Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18, was arrested at his home in Long Beach late Wednesday on suspicion of Sunday's killing of Sherrice Iverson after another teenager sought in the killing went to police with his parents, police said.

The girl was killed early Sunday in a women's restroom near an arcade area of the Primadonna Casino in Primm, Nev., while her father gambled in the casino.

The casino security office issued a videotape showing a man following the girl into the restroom. The man came out of the restroom about 25 minutes later. The girl's body was later found in a restroom stall.